The authority wants to reduce the department’s existing £1.8m budget by 46 per cent to £973,000 in April 2015.
At present, the majority of Hampshire’s youth services budget is given as grants to voluntary organisations, which deliver targeted youth services on behalf of the council.
However, a consultation document reveals the authority will seek to make savings in 2015/16 by scrapping services currently delivered by voluntary organisations and replacing them with a new needs-based offer.
Under the plans, the council will create 23 "youth pods" – dedicated centres where children and families support workers will provide targeted support to 11- to 19-year-olds on a range of issues, including sexual health, homelessness and mental health.
The council will also develop seven detached youth service teams to provide support in seven wards identified by a needs mapping process.
Of the proposed £973,000 budget, the majority – £535,000 – will be commissioned out as contracts to organisations that can provide targeted support to young people not in education, employment or training.
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